Category: Guns & Crime

My mother always said that the most unfair things in life happen to people who don’t deserve it. Jason Jones at “The Daily Show” proves my momma right. Read more: http://upworthy.com/kablooey-the-daily-show-puts-another-debate-to-rest-2

Ever since I was a kid, it always felt to me like the death penalty was not right. Jeremy Irons sums it up nicely in this video. Especially with the botched executions happening lately, it feels like we need to have this conversation again and again. Read more: http://upworthy.com/something-that-civilized-countries-have-done-away-with-but-the-good-ol-us-of-a-nah

Satire ahead! Satire ahead! Clever satire at that. I absolutely love this comic by Keith Knight. It’s so simple, but it says so much. I won’t muck it up with my opinions, other than it’s truly a smart commentary on America today. Share this by clicking the Facebook and Twitter icons below. Or don’t. No…

The point here is not so much that one system is obviously better than the other, but that the way we run prisons in the U.S. is not the only way to do it. //www.youtube.com/embed/2g56susrNQY?start=6&wmode=transparent&showinfo=0&controls=1&enablejsapi=1&rel=0&version=3&color=white At this point, you might have the same reaction. To be honest, I did. But maybe the Norwegian system isn’t…

In covering terrible tragedies such as the one that happened in Ottawa on Wednesday, the news needs to stop focusing on the shooter. That’s not to say we should completely ignore the seriousness of the event, just that we need to focus on everything else surrounding it as well. Instead of delving into the “mind…